Top 50 GPO Suppliers Report Released for Q4 of 2013

CHAMBERSBURG, PA—February 12, 2014—There are always one or two surprises to be found in the quarterly report of top U.S. Government Printing Office contractors by volume. Many times a printer will appear seemingly out of nowhere or make a major jump up the listing. It’s certainly common for rankings to shift from one quarter to another. In terms of the 50 names on the report, however, there is generally a fair amount of quarter to quarter consistency. That was not the case between the third and fourth quarters of the 2013 federal fiscal year.

Government Print Management’s Top 50 GPO Suppliers Report for the fourth quarter of 2013 features 15 printers who were not on the third quarter report. While the names are not necessarily new to GPO printing; the fact that 30 percent of the top suppliers are different from one quarter to another is novel. In addition to the sizable number of different names, the Top 50 for Q4 of 2013 also featured a fair amount of shifting in the ranks among printers since appearing in the Q3 report. Fourteen of the printers who were on both the Q3 and Q4 listings moved up in rankings.

“To see a nearly sixty percent difference in the Top 50 between the third and fourth quarters was interesting,” said Debbie Snider, senior vice president at Government Print Management. “Climbing the ranks of the Top 50 between quarters, whether within it or to make it make it onto the list, is evidence that printing for the GPO is something private sector printers find valuable.”

Taking first place for Q4 was NPC Inc. of Claysburg, PA, followed by Gateway Press of Louisville, KY, Monarch Litho of Montebello, CA, Sourcelink of Miamisburg, OH, and Gray Graphics Corp. of Capitol Heights, MD, rounding out the top five places. Printers making some of the largest jumps up the rankings included Bros. Lithographing Co. of Chicago who moved onto, and all the way up the list, to eleventh place. V.N. Products of San Carlos, CA, made the next largest jump, moving nineteen places to twentieth on the list.

Full Top 50 GPO Suppliers reports for the fourth quarter of 2013, delivered absolutely free, directly to your e-mail, are available from Government Print Management at www.governmentprintmanagement.com/Library/gpotop50request.html. About Government Print ManagementFor over 35 years Government Print Management has provided end-to-end sales assistance, strategic services and information that enable printers to effectively participate, win and profit in the GPO print market. The original and only full-service GPO bid service firm, Government Print Management is also the only processor of all available GPO opportunities and the owner of the world’s largest database of GPO information. Government Print Management is endorsed by Printing Industries of America.